Contract shooter, Tamworth & New England
Vertebrate pest control for broadacre grazing and cropping country across Tamworth and the New England tablelands.
On Point Contract Shooting is a licensed, insured NSW vertebrate pest control business working across Tamworth & New England and the surrounding districts. We hold a NSW Firearms Licence Category A, B and D as a VPAC accredited contract shooter and business, a Prohibited Weapons Permit for suppressors, and full public liability insurance.
Call Grant on 0410 533 948, or request a site assessment.
The country around Tamworth & New England
This is scale country. Broadacre grazing and cropping, big paddocks, timbered gullies and ridge country, and travelling stock routes and reserves running through it. Properties are measured in thousands of hectares rather than tens.
Worth knowing when you go looking for the rules that apply to you: this is not one region administratively. Tamworth sits in North West Local Land Services, which is cropping and irrigation country, while the New England tablelands sit in Northern Tablelands LLS, which is grazing country with its own separate regional pest animal plan. If you are chasing a program or a funding line, the reference you need depends on which side of that boundary the property falls.
At that scale you cannot search a property, you have to survey it. This is the country where thermal drone mapping makes the biggest difference to a result, because it turns an impossible search into a targeted operation.
What presses hardest here
Species pressure is not the same across New South Wales, and the control program should not be either. Around Tamworth & New England the recurring problems are:
Feral pigs in the gullies, creek country and crop, where mobs do serious damage to cropping ground and lambing paddocks in a short time.
Wild dogs off the timbered and ridge country onto grazing land, where the losses are stock and the pressure is constant.
Foxes across grazing country at lambing.
Feral goats on the rougher, rockier ground, overgrazing fragile country and competing with stock.
Rabbits on the lighter soils.
A thermal drone survey is what confirms which of these is actually driving the damage on your property, rather than which one you have seen most recently.
How the country changes the job
Not every job here is a remote grazing operation. The NSW Government's Tamworth Peri-urban Pest Plan identifies feral pigs, deer and goats in the town-fringe context, and a block on the edge of town is a constrained job with neighbours, not open country.
Out on the bigger places, distance is the practical constraint. Getting to the far corner at night, whether tracks hold up after rain, and how many nights the work needs all feed into scope. Neighbouring holdings matter more here than anywhere: pigs and dogs do not respect a boundary fence, and a coordinated program across adjoining properties holds a result that a single-property program will not.
What a program looks like
Site assessment, then thermal mapping to locate and validate what is present, then the control operation itself using ground shooting, trapping and baiting or both, and finally post-operation reporting with GIS-ready outputs and chain-of-custody documentation.
What it costs depends on the property, not the postcode, and the site assessment is what turns it into a firm number. If you are a council, Landcare group or agribusiness, see feral animal control contracts.
FAQ
Tamworth & New England questions
Do you cover Tamworth & New England?
Yes. We are based in New South Wales and travel to rural and regional properties across the state, including Tamworth & New England and the surrounding districts. Get in touch and we will confirm for your specific property.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes. On Point holds a NSW Firearms Licence Category A, B and D as a VPAC accredited contract shooter and business, a Prohibited Weapons Permit for suppressors, relevant national accreditations, and full public liability insurance.
What does it cost?
There is no fixed rate. Price is driven by the property, the access, the species and how many, whether the work runs at night, and what reporting you need. The site assessment is what produces a firm number.
How soon can you look at it?
Get in touch with the property location and what you are seeing, and we will come back to you within one business day to arrange a site assessment.
Feral pest pressure around Tamworth & New England?
Tell us about the property and what you're seeing, and we'll arrange a site assessment.